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Vol. 40, No. 14
August 11, 1948
ALLIED ARTISTS EXECS HOWARD STUBBINS, SCOTT DUNLAP, GEORGE BURROWS, AND STEVE BROIDY POSE ON THE COAST WITH BABE RUTH.
The Story Behind “The Story”
Allied Artists Tackled Something Really Big, And The Results Are Gratifying
WHILE in the past there have been feature motion pictures based on important figures in the world of sports, many of these have either been hurriedly concocted affairs — taking ad¬ vantage of a couple of hot names — or else memorializing a personality who had passed on.
It remained for producer Roy Del Ruth and Allied Artists to construct a show based on a living luminary who is certainly the greatest and most beloved in his field. Of course, that means Babe Ruth.
Thought, time, and great expense went into the production. Three times, trips were made from Hollywood to the east soast to take advantage of real back¬ grounds, and the last trip found William Bendix, who plays Babe Ruth, on hand to appear in the Yankee Stadium before a crowd of 40,000 to duplicate Ruth’s recordbreaking 60th home run.
The picture is based on “The Story of
“The Babe Ruth Story," gets together on the set with the Bambino for a few batting pointers.
Babe Ruth,” written by Bob Considine. To check the authenticity of the film, Ruth visited Hollywood, and for three weeks during production was a daily figure on the movie set, conferring with Del Ruth and the latter’s associate producers, D. Ross Lederman and Joe Kaufman.
Great personalities come and go, to be revered by one generation, and to be just a name in the history books to an¬ other. Not with The Babe. It’s been some time since he’s been throwing his hefty bat around but every kid today, as long as he can shape a few words, knows about him.
And aside from the commercial value of “The Babe Ruth Story” itself, Del Ruth and Allied Artists deserve loads of credit for recreating the story of The Babe as inspiration for the new young generation, and to furnish the older folks with great cause for heart warming remembrances of things past. — Ben Belsham.